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Excerpt from The Reformation Of The Ecclesiastical Laws As Attempted in The Reigns Of King Henry VIII, King Edward Vi, And Queen Elizabeth
And now in the present parliament, so active for the reforming of religion, it was moved, as was thought, seasonably. And care was taken to have it printed against the sitting of the parlia mentz which was done by John Fox, from two original ms. Copies: the former archbishop Cran mer's own book (which afterwards fell into Fox's possession); wherein was much of his own hand, as likewise of Peter Martyr's and other the assist ants: the other a copy belonging to archbishop Parker. Who, I verily believe, employed and encouraged Fox in preparing this book for the press. And that he made use of our archbishop's copy, appears by what Fox wrote in his own on the head of the page that contains the titles of the whole following book, viz. Ordo titulo rum in Cod. D. Matth. Cant. Placing those titles according to the said archbishop's copy com municated to him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
